Abstract
Six new carbocyclic nucleosides were prepared by mounting a purine (compounds 4–6), 8-azapurine (7 and 8) or undine (9) base on the ammo group of (1S,3R)-3-amino-2,2,3-trimethylcyclopentylmethanol (10). At subtoxic concentrations, compounds 5-9 showed at best marginal antiviral activity.